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A Look Back at the Opium War, 2002.
An analysis of the significance, causes, and effect of the Opium War in China.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 80.95
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The Opium War of the mid-nineteenth century was a pivotal event in modern Chinese history as it marked both an end to China's isolation from the rest of the world, and also the beginning of China's long period of subjugation to the Western imperial powers. However, the argument that opium was the cause of the Opium War is to implicitly apply twenty-first century standards of morality to describe a nineteenth century imperialist war. This paper will argue that, although opium was one of the causes of the Opium War, the drug trade was actually a secondary element in the conflict. The primary cause of the conflict was the Chinese imperial government's ignorance and arrogance with respect to the challenge presented by the British.
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The Great Opium Wars, 2005.
This paper discusses in detail, China's history and political structure to understand the Great Opium Wars between China and Great Britain.
4,210 words (approx. 16.8 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 112.95
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This paper explains that, by 1800, no state or institution on earth was as old as the Chinese Empire but it was on the brink of dissolution brought on by opium addiction and the Great Opium Wars between China and Great Britain. The author points out the Emperor Tao-kuang, in an attempt to prohibit the use of opium, in 1820, demanded that the trading ships of the very powerful Britain dump their opium cargoes. The paper relates that, overwhelmingly defeated, on the 29th August 1842, the Chinese signed the Treaty of Nanking, paid an indemnity for the destroyed opium, ceded the island of Hong Kong and the opium trade remained illegal but with no way to stop it: The Chinese Imperial Government lasted only another seventy years.
Table of Contents
A Brief Political History of China
China in the 18th and 19th Century
Opium Addiction in China
The Opium Wars
The Loss of Hong Kong
The Collapse of the Chinese Empire
From the Paper
"Prior the Qin Dynasty which began around 25 AD, China was a divided country by both subculture and written language. The Qin Dynasty lasted only for 14 years under the reign of emperor, Qin Shihuang, a particularly cruel ruler. Qin Shihuang is credited for unifying the written Chinese Language and with credited with introducing an administrative system that remained in place for more than 2000 years. Principle features of this administrative system are a strong central rule and a system of provinces, governed by administrators appointed by the center. Even communist China still follows this model."
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The Opium War, 2002.
Argues that the underlying reason for the Opium War was not the drug itself, but more a struggle for power.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper will argue that, although opium was one of the causes of the Opium War, the drug trade was actually a secondary element in the conflict. The primary cause of the conflict was the Chinese imperial government's ignorance and arrogance with respect to the challenge presented by the British. This is not to say that the British were without moral fault for their role in the Opium War. However, morality is irrelevant in discussion of what was essentially a struggle for economic and political supremacy. As will be shown, the Chinese ruling class were negligent in their understanding of the threat that they faced, which resulted in a confrontation that could only have ended in the humiliating defeat of the Chinese nation.
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The Opium Wars in China, 2006.
A paper looking at the two main causes of China's first Opium War.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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The Opium Wars were fought between China and Great Britain between 1840 and 1860. The First Opium War covered the time period of 1840 to 1842. This paper focuses on the First Opium War and analyzes its causes. The paper shows that it was caused not simply by opium but by two other larger factors. The first was the clash of two proud nations that did not respect each other: China and Great Britain. The second was the aggressive desire of Great Britain to force China to trade with it, and in this way to further expand its great trading empire.
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Opium: Pros and Cons, 2008.
This paper explores the positive and negative aspects of opium in society today.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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The paper discusses the reasons why opium remains a viable factor in society and most likely will for centuries to come. The paper looks at its valuable medicinal purposes as well as it being a crop that ensures people will continue to survive in rural areas. The paper also discusses how the production of opium is the cause of vast suffering in many societies. The paper maintains that the negative outcomes that are caused by its production far outweigh the positive factors of its existence. The paper concludes, however, that due to opium being used in morphine, the production of opium can ultimately only be supported in societies.
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"Opium is produced in vast quantities and sold for both legal and illegal purposes across the globe. The common citizen is generally unaware of the extent to which opium plays a significant role in the lives of millions of people, or the positive factors that are involved in opium production. What is known widely throughout society is that opium, when used in the production of heroin, is addictive. Yet, the primary ingredient in morphine, it also alleviates pain in severely ill patients and has other medicinal purposes. In Afghanistan it is the foundation of the economic survival of a large portion of the population' although it is also required for the million dollar drug trade operated by al-Qaeda. Opium insures that the United States can communicate with warlords in Afghanistan to combat terror and it causes the destruction of lives in impoverished communities. It can be outlawed, as it has been in many nations, and it can be an alternative to starvation. It is for all of these reasons that opium remains a viable factor in society and most likely will for centuries to come."
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Opium in British Columbia, 2002.
This paper discusses opium's addictive qualities and how society's attitudes to it have changed.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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The paper examines how Vancouver's opium factories serviced the North American drug trade in the late 19th century. We then see how, in the early part of the century, Vancouver's substantial drug culture centred on the opium dens of Chinatown, and then, by the late '40s, had shifted to the streets. Overall, the paper examines how opium has long been a Vancouver phenomenon.
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The Opium War, 2002.
An overview of the part played by Hong Kong in the Opium War of 1839-42.
2,775 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 102.95
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This paper looks at the following questions: Why was there such an interest in Hong Kong during the time of the Opium War? Is it actually true that empires collided and sacrificed lives on the basis of a single drug? Were there no other factors involved? The purpose of this paper is to develop these questions and discover to what extent the Opium War of 1839-42 was indeed centered on opium in Hong Kong.
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Opium, 2002.
This paper discusses the history, science and prospects of opium.
1,075 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses that many physicians considered opium to be perhaps the best natural pain reliever ever discovered. The paper states that Australia and France are sanctioned by the United Nations to grow opium poppies legally for the production and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. The author believes by employing new methods of biosynthesis to produce genetically altered plants, researchers hope to grow morphine-free opium poppies, ensuring a stable supply of codeine. This paper is complete with pictures and graphes of the chemical structure.
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"Papaver somniferum has been used medicinally for centuries for its ability to produce a number of opiates that act as analgesics. The earliest recorded history of opium cultivation is approximately 3400 B.C., in lower Mesopotamia. The tradition of opium cultivation for medicinal purposes was carried on from the Sumerians, to the Assyrians, to the Babylonians, to the Egyptians, and so on to present day. Cultural references to the use of the opium poppy can be found in literary and medical texts, for instance the use of opium can be found in Homer?s Iliad (850 B.C.) and with in the Hippocratic Corpus (460 B.C.)".
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The Opium Wars, 2006.
A reivew of W. Travis Hanes and Frank Sanello's 'The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another'.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper reviews 'The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another' written by W. Travis Hanes and Frank Sanello. The paper discusses how the authors present a history of the Opium Wars between China and Great Britain in the middle nineteenth century that marked the effective beginning of China's long subjugation and resistance to colonialism.
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The Opium War, 2004.
This is a Review of a book on the Opium War.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews of the 1968 book, "The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes," by Arthur Waley. The book centers on personal narratives of Chinese people who were willing or unwilling participants in the Opium War.
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Opium War, 2002.
What were the causes of the Opium War?
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper examines the causes of the Opium War. There were many, and Wakeman explains some. Two other others are used to explain the others. Some causes go back to the 18th century, others are just before the war.
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The Opium Wars, 2005.
This paper discusses the Opium Wars between China and Britain.
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper examines the causes and consequences of the Opium Wars between China and Britain in the 19th century. The author argues that imperialism, trade needs and clash of cultures caused wars in which China was defeated.
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"Military historian John Brown has stated that the Opium Wars had their roots in mutual incomprehensibility of East and West ... . The Chinese regarded all other nations as little more than vassal or tributary states ..."
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"Confessions of an English Opium Eater", 2005.
An exploration of Thomas De Quincey's preoccupation with the romantic notion of the dual self and the significance of this view in the conflicting narrative voices in "Confessions of an English Opium Eater".
3,107 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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Through an examination of the interplay between the controlled and impassioned personas, it is ascertained whether De Quincey's portrayal of a divided self in his novel "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", is as clear-cut as the romantic view, or, whether his ego is a rendezvous of indeterminable personas. The meta-narrative repercussions of this interplay on structure, language and authorial perspective is also examined.
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""Nietzsche's claim that 'the ego is a rendezvous of persons' (Letwin: 1987: 84) is aptly reiterated by Thomas De Quincey: 'A self-conquest may reasonably be set off in counterbalance to any kind or degree of self-indulgence' (De Quincey: 1998: 2). De Quincey exemplifies a distinctly Romantic approach to the complexities of divided selfhood, a view that originates in Plato's concept of the dual self, 'a rational self battling against the irrational self' (Letwin: 1987: 85). In De Quincey's autobiographical work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, a tension exists between an impassioned, exaggerated 'self', and an analytical, cohered, 'self', demonstrating an apparent interplay between subjective emotional self and objective creator."
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The Opium Wars, 2004.
A discussion of the political, social, and economic impacts of the Opium Wars.
1,674 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper looks at how, between the years 1839 and 1841, the British Empire, then under the rule of the very young Queen Victoria, commenced what has come to be called the "Opium Wars" against China, which, prior to 1842, was a closed and self-isolated nation. It looks at how the war caused many negative consequences, some being the destruction of China's false sense of superiority over the West, as well as the collapse of its social, economic, and political structures, which brought about social chaos and insurrection.
From the Paper
"The "Opium Wars" touched off many explosive matters with far-reaching consequences, all of which contributed to its failure. Politically, the cession of Hong Kong gave Great Britain a powerful foothold in China for further advancement; the opening of numerous Chinese ports, such as Shanghai, Macao and Chinkiang, extended foreign, particularly British, influence to the entire eastern coast of China and the loss of numerous national rights relegated China to a semi-colonial state. Socially, the continuation of the illicit traffic deepened the opium problem and the growth of foreign trade in the prominent ports introduced "a new class of business entrepreneurs who came to wield an increasing influence upon Chinese society" (La Fleur 268)."
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Coleridge and Opium, 2002.
A dsicussion of the effects of opium and drugs in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's literature from the late 1700's to the mid 1800's.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents a look at the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The writer of this paper details Coleridge's life and focuses on the ways his opium addiction affected his writing in the 1700's and 1800's.
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